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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 05.07.2021, 14:00

> > Sure. I have a competing product.
> >
> > Far less features.
> >
> > Far less copyrighted code.
> >
> > People will probably need to make that
> > tradeoff for eternity. Not just with
> > freeware, but with commercial software
> > too. I'm not attempting to replace
> > commercial software. I'm trying to give
> > them unencumbered code to lower their
> > costs.
>
> Being very explicit about how "evil" open
> source is alone does not give you
> a market.
My own code is open source. And public domain too.

> In particular when you have only a tiny subset of the features of
> Windows and refuse to add even standard things such as segments,
> threads or networking.
That "tiny subset" allows a complete toolchain
and editor to run, enabling you to reconstruct
the entire world at your leisure.

In order of priority, replacing the toolchain
with public domain software (not just the
libraries) is of far more interest to me than
threads etc.

And after that, porting to other environments
is of more interest than threads etc.

> Not everything is as "insidious" as GPL. There also is LGPL and
> MIT, BSD, CC and other licenses are actually quite relaxed.
All of them designed to prevent the public from
owning that functionality.

> Even Windows
> includes many open source components. The cost for Microsoft is having to
> provide a website which mentions them all and mirrors their source code.
> Very affordable.
And always open to the copyright holders deciding
that their interpretation of their license on their
copyrighted code requires more mentions, e.g. daily
popups. A judge will decide on that. Microsoft can
probably afford enough lawyers to win. Not everyone
can. Wouldn't touch any of them with a 10 foot pole.

> Most users will not care either way. They use pre-installed Windows, do not
> read the license, are not aware of the "Microsoft tax" when buying a
> computer with Windows. It just is already there.
I don't really care what "most users care".

> Others use Linux, even
> states and companies do. Russia is even creating their own Linux distro, so
> they neither have to trust nor pay Microsoft. This can include closed
> source components, so they do not have to reveal every detail either. They
> only have to reveal their patches to existing open source parts:
And if the Russian government has nukes to protect
them from lawsuits, that's a choice they can make.

I really don't care what random Russians do.

What I care about is American (and other countries)
companies who refuse to touch anything with a
copyright notice, and develop their product from
scratch instead. And pass that development cost
on to the consumer. Everyone loses.

> If you look at Raspberry Pi style computers or simply at the better Arduino
> variants, you already get threads, multiple CPU cores and networking. On
> Raspberry Pi style single board computers (SBC), people simply use a full
> Linux.
Good luck to them.

> Sometimes the 3d and video acceleration drivers are closed source, like for
> other desktop and laptop PC. For some SBC, Android (derived from Linux) or
> lightweight Windows variants are available.
Good luck to them too.

I have my own copyright-free product, and certain
people in the world know the value of that, even
if the average Joe Bloggs doesn't, and even if
other developers know what it means, but insist
it has no value, hoping I will be swayed, and
keep ownership of OSes in the hands of the elite
instead of the public owning at least one that
does anything at all.

BFN. Paul.

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